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 1:1  The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
 1:2  O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear!
[even] cry out unto thee [of] violence, and thou wilt not save!
 1:3  Why dost thou show me iniquity, and cause [me] to behold
grievance? for spoiling and violence [are] before me: and there
are [that] raise up strife and contention.
 1:4  Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go
forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous;
therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
 1:5  Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder
marvellously: for [I] will work a work in your days, [which] ye
will not believe, though it be told [you].
 1:6  For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, [that] bitter and
hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the
land, to possess the dwellingplaces [that are] not theirs.
 1:7  They [are] terrible and dreadful: their judgment and
their dignity shall proceed of themselves.
 1:8  Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are
more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall
spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they
shall fly as the eagle [that] hasteth to eat.
 1:9  They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup
up [as] the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as
the sand.
 1:10  And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall
be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for
they shall heap dust, and take it.
 1:11  Then shall [his] mind change, and he shall pass over,
and offend, [imputing] this his power unto his god.
 1:12  [Art] thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine
Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for
judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for
correction.
 1:13  [Thou art] of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst
not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that
deal treacherously, [and] holdest thy tongue when the wicked
devoureth [the man that is] more righteous than he?
 1:14  And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping
things, [that have] no ruler over them?
 1:15  They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them
in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they
rejoice and are glad.
 1:16  Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn
incense unto their drag; because by them their portion [is]
fat, and their meat plenteous.
 1:17  Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare
continually to slay the nations?

 2:1  I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower,
and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I
shall answer when I am reproved.
 2:2  And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and
make [it] plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
 2:3  For the vision [is] yet for an appointed time, but at the
end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it;
because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
 2:4  Behold, his soul [which] is lifted up is not upright in
him: but the just shall live by his faith.
 2:5  Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, [he is] a
proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as
hell, and [is] as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth
unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:
 2:6  Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a
taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that
increaseth [that which is] not his! how long? and to him that
ladeth himself with thick clay!
 2:7  Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and
awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto
them?
 2:8  Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant
of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and
[for] the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that
dwell therein.
 2:9  Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his
house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be
delivered from the power of evil!
 2:10  Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off
many people, and hast sinned [against] thy soul.
 2:11  For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam
out of the timber shall answer it.
 2:12  Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and
stablisheth a city by iniquity!
 2:13  Behold, [is it] not of the LORD of hosts that the people
shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary
themselves for very vanity?
 2:14  For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the
glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
 2:15  Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that
puttest thy bottle to [him], and makest [him] drunken also,
that thou mayest look on their nakedness!
 2:16  Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also,
and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD'S right
hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing [shall be]
on thy glory.
 2:17  For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the
spoil of beasts, [which] made them afraid, because of men's
blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of
all that dwell therein.
 2:18  What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof
hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that
the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
 2:19  Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb
stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it [is] laid over with
gold and silver, and [there is] no breath at all in the midst
of it.
 2:20  But the LORD [is] in his holy temple: let all the earth
keep silence before him.

 3:1  A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.
 3:2  O LORD, I have heard thy speech, [and] was afraid: O
LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst
of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.
 3:3  God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran.
Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of
his praise.
 3:4  And [his] brightness was as the light; he had horns
[coming] out of his hand: and there [was] the hiding of his
power.
 3:5  Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went
forth at his feet.
 3:6  He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove
asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were
scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways [are]
everlasting.
 3:7  I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: [and] the
curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
 3:8  Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? [was] thine
anger against the rivers? [was] thy wrath against the sea, that
thou didst ride upon thine horses [and] thy chariots of
salvation?
 3:9  Thy bow was made quite naked, [according] to the oaths of
the tribes, [even thy] word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth
with rivers.
 3:10  The mountains saw thee, [and] they trembled: the
overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice,
[and] lifted up his hands on high.
 3:11  The sun [and] moon stood still in their habitation: at
the light of thine arrows they went, [and] at the shining of
thy glittering spear.
 3:12  Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou
didst thresh the heathen in anger.
 3:13  Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people,
[even] for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the
head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the
foundation unto the neck. Selah.
 3:14  Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of
his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their
rejoicing [was] as to devour the poor secretly.
 3:15  Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses,
[through] the heap of great waters.
 3:16  When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the
voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in
myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh
up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.
 3:17  Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither [shall]
fruit [be] in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail,
and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off
from the fold, and [there shall be] no herd in the stalls:
 3:18  Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of
my salvation.
 3:19  The LORD God [is] my strength, and he will make my feet
like hinds' [feet], and he will make me to walk upon mine high
places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.